Paper clasp



. J. w. GRANT.

PAPER CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12. 1920.

Patented Jung 27, 1922.

INVENTOR AT T iz Ev JAMES W. GRANT, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO FRED J. KLINE, OF

LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.. i

PAPER CLASP.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JAMES W. GRANT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bridgeport, in the county of F airfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clasps for hold ing papers, pamphlets, and the like, and its main object is to provide an improved clasp of this type made of sheet metal and which is adapted for filing papers and the like laid flat, and is also adapted to be hung on a rod, cord or wire, or other suitable holding means. 1

The embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the drawing accompanying and forming part of this specification and in Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig.

2, and V j V p v FFig. 4 isa section on the line 44 of Like characters of reference refer to like parts in all the figures of the drawing.

My improved paper clasp embodies two members which are designated by the numerals 2 and 3 respectively, and which each consist of a jaw 4, a handle 5, and a connecting portion 6 narrower than the handle or the spread of the jaw. The jaws are curved at 4 and are normally shut together.

The members 2 and 3 are preferably formed shaped handle portions 5toi the jaws 4 centrally placed on the connecting portions 6 I are ribs 10 of curved cross-section as illustrated in Fig. 3.

There is a coil spring 11 wound around the pivot pin 9, and said spring has projecting portions 12 and 13, the projection 12' hearing against the inner side of the member 2, and

Specification of Letters Patent. P3,teni;ed'June 2'7, 1922, Application filed June 12, 1920 Serial No. 388,421. l

member 2 is provided a means for suspending the clasp on a rod, stretched cord-or wire, or other suitabledevice, and said means preferably consists of an integral portion 14 which extends downwardly, and inwardly, and in Fig. 1 lies radially to the center of the handle ring 5. The point 15 of the member 14lies. opposite the lower part of the hole 16 in said ring 5, and in the space between the two members 2 and 3. 'By means of this arrangement the projection or hook 14 is out of the way when the clasp is laid flat on a table or other object thatj'is flat. I The projection 14 allows theclasp tohe hung upona rod, stretched cord or wire'holding papers, pamphlets andv the like clamped between the jaws 4 for displaying them for i sale. This is illustrated in Figs. land; 2 r

where the rod, cord or wire is indicated in g dotted lines ber 17 It will be noted in Fig.

and designated by the num-i 2 that the spaces 7 between the hook 14 and the back of the handle 5' adjacent to them are wedge-shaped," and the cord or wire 17 canbe pushed intov said spaces so as to bulge out toward the 1 front, and when it is so crowded and wedged papers held by the clasp cannot be away by a breeze or draft.- e

The clasp being adapted. to

ing of sueharticles. I What I claim is V 1. The combination with 7 embodying: two members each formedv by stamping out of sheet metal, having two VT 1 1 through the ears, and a 'spring. on the pin I ears, and each provided witha jaw, a pin a paper clasp in, it is not readily detached so that light" blown j 9,0 lie properly on flat objects allows it to be used also for filing of papers, letters, documents and the like, and is especially'adapted for temporaryfil f whereby the jaws are pressed together, of a ring-shaped handle at the upper part of one s of said members, having a downwardly pointing hook springing from the upper part of the handle-ring extending betweenthe two members and having wedge-shaped spacesring and the edges of the hook, in which spaces a cord on which the device is hung can be wedged.

2. The combination with a paper clasp embodying two members hinged together and each provided with a jaw, which jaws are pressed together by a spring in the hinge, of a handle on each of said members at the upper part thereof, ring-shaped and oppositely disposed, each having a circular hole,

' and one provided with a downwardly pointing hook springing radially from the upper part of the handle integral therewith extending between the handles, pointing toward the lower part of the second member, and havingwedge-shaped spaces between the edges of the hole in the handle ring and the edges of the hook, in which spaces a cord for hanging the device can be wedged so as to bulge into said circular hole.

Signed at Bridgeport in the county of F airfield and State of Connecticut this 7th day of April, A. D. 1920.

JAMES W. GRANT. 

